What made Baldurs Gate 3 great wasn’t DnD it was Larian. Same for BG 1/2 and old BioWare.
You can’t just create that level of care by pumping out lots of games, they’ll probably fill them with MTX or GaaS bullshit to try and get more money from it as well.
Better yet, they see MTX games making money and D&D games making money, so they think combining the two will make even more money. I hope they’re wrong.
You can absolutely license a crap load of games and be successful with it. Games Workshop does that with 40k. They haven’t had much that’s as huge as BG3, but the generally are reasonable games. Some are garbage mobile games, but a lot aren’t that as well.
I doubt Hasbro/WotC can actually handle licensing out IP as successfully as GW, but it’s totally possible to do.
Concur. Larian is a breath of fresh air in a field saturated with pay-to-win, monetized, microtransaction nonsense. I’m not convinced they haven’t traveled across dimensions to restore fun and sanity to a hobby that has been all but ruined by greed and laziness.
Yep. I’d go so far as to argue the game is vastly worse than it could be because it’s dnd. If it was shadowrun? World? Nobilis? Hell, a high schoolers first BESM campaign? It would have been so much better.
I don’t think they understand.
What made Baldurs Gate 3 great wasn’t DnD it was Larian. Same for BG 1/2 and old BioWare.
You can’t just create that level of care by pumping out lots of games, they’ll probably fill them with MTX or GaaS bullshit to try and get more money from it as well.
The suits don’t understand anything. They see game making money and they’re like “more games equals more money”
The shovelware tsunami is imminent
Better yet, they see MTX games making money and D&D games making money, so they think combining the two will make even more money. I hope they’re wrong.
Of course they don’t understand.
You can absolutely license a crap load of games and be successful with it. Games Workshop does that with 40k. They haven’t had much that’s as huge as BG3, but the generally are reasonable games. Some are garbage mobile games, but a lot aren’t that as well.
I doubt Hasbro/WotC can actually handle licensing out IP as successfully as GW, but it’s totally possible to do.
Concur. Larian is a breath of fresh air in a field saturated with pay-to-win, monetized, microtransaction nonsense. I’m not convinced they haven’t traveled across dimensions to restore fun and sanity to a hobby that has been all but ruined by greed and laziness.
Yep. I’d go so far as to argue the game is vastly worse than it could be because it’s dnd. If it was shadowrun? World? Nobilis? Hell, a high schoolers first BESM campaign? It would have been so much better.